Sarah Whyte and Michael Gordon
Asylum seekers have detailed allegations of sexual abuse and threats of rape by guards working in the detention centre on Nauru, as protests and acts of self-harm continue over the decision to offer...

Michael Gordon
As Gapirri Yunupingu-Collins sat at the bedside of his gravely-ill and famous father, Galarrwuy, at a Darwin hospital earlier this year, the idea began to take hold. It was time to come home.

Michael Gordon
Tony Abbott has declined to endorse Noel Pearson's new direction on recognition of indigenous Australians as Aboriginal leaders express alarm that the move could fracture indigenous consensus on the...

Michael Gordon
Tony Abbott and Bill Shorten have met privately and resolved to work together to maximise the prospects of the referendum recognising Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the constitution.

Michael Gordon
Even before Tony Abbott announced that about 600 air and military personnel would prepare to join the fight against "the death cult that exalts in evil", this was going to be a week like no other for...

Michael Gordon and Conrad Walters
Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has rejected claims that his latest High Court defeat could have implications for thousands of asylum seekers in immigration detention.

Sarah Whyte and Michael Gordon
Health professionals should consider a boycott of offshore immigration detention centres to force aimed at forcing an end to "substandard and harmful" treatment of asylum seekers, according to two...

Michael Gordon
For a brief few minutes on Wednesday, Jeremy Stoljar SC seemed to sense a crack in the wall Julia Gillard had patiently constructed to defend her conduct as a young lawyer with a flawed boyfriend...

Michael Gordon
The Salvation Army was warned that two of its employees at the Manus Island detention centre wanted to take part in a fight with detainees before scores of asylum seekers were injured in a night of...

Kate McClymont, Michaela Whitbourn, Michael Gordon
Labor has accused the federal government of taking ‘‘cash for questions’’ after it was revealed that Tony Abbott’s chief of staff, Peta Credlin, planned to use...

Michael Gordon
Australia has been accused of a "chain of human rights violations" in its treatment of asylum seekers by the incoming United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein.

Michael Gordon
The most notorious compound at the Manus Island detention centre does not appear on the official map. The four main compounds, Delta, Foxtrot, Mike and Oscar, are all clearly marked. But not this one.